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A Yemeni girl is held up by anti-government protestors during a demonstration demanding the resignation of President Saleh in Sana’a, Yemen on April 12, 2011. [Photo: Muhammed Muheisen / AP]

Bahrain, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Swaziland, Syria, Yemen News Roundup: April 12

Bahrain:

List of people killed in Bahrain since 14th February | Bahrain Center for Human Rights

Bahrain opposition figure ‘dies in custody’ | AJE

Daughter of jailed Bahrain human rights activist says she’s on hunger strike until his release | AP

Bahrain questions 3 reporters, may charge activist | Reuters

Bahrain urged to drop charges against editor | AFP

Hospital Is Drawn Into Bahrain Strife | NY Times

Bahrain Ambassador to the U.S.: CNN Report on Bahrain flawed

U.S. Stays Mum as Bahrain Unleashes Brutal Crackdown | ProPublica

Human Rights Watch: Suspicious Deaths in Custody

Ivory Coast:

Gunfire in Abidjan despite Gbagbo arrest | BBC

EU urges national unity government in Ivory Coast | Reuters

Obama Congratulates Ivory Coast’s Ouattara on Assuming Power | Bloomberg

UN names Cote d’Ivoire rights probe team | AJE

France sees no long military role in Ivory Coast | Reuters

Group Sees Ivory Coast Sanctions Lifted Soon | Corruption Currents - WSJ

New Leader Consolidates His Control In Ivory Coast | NY Times

Search for Lasting Ivorian Peace Begins | AllAfrica

Danger stalks streets of tired, angry Abidjan | Reuters

Sen. Inofe defends Gbagbo with ‘happy face’ | TPM

Why France must tread carefully in Ivory Coast | BBC

Analysis: Ouattara unlikely to salve Ivorian wounds | Reuters

Jordan:

Jordan tries 81 over March 24 demonstration | AFP

Jordan releases 4 jailed members of radical Islamist group in effort to stave off protests | AP

Saudi Arabia:

Why the United States should push Saudi Arabia toward democracy | PRI/WNYC

Swaziland:

Swaziland Police Beat, Arrest Protesters | VOA

Swazi forces fire at crowds to halt anti-king protest | Reuters

Unions’ Leadership Arrested | AllAfrica

Swaziland security forces target journalists | Committee to Protect Journalists

University of Swaziland Students Unanimously Endorse Uprising | AllAfrica

Syria:

Syrian soldiers shot for refusing to fire on protesters | Guardian

Syrian protesters ‘barred from medical care’ | AJE

Syrian forces arrest 200 in rebellious town, says lawyer | Reuters

Witnesses say Syrian gunmen attack 2 villages as regime tries to quell uprising | AP

Syrian University Protests Violently Suppressed | NY Times

Video shows Syria clash from two angles | The Lede

No end in sight | The Economist

Comment: White House finally condemns Syria | Guardian

Yemen:

Yemenis protest against mediation deal offering president immunity from prosecution | AP

Yemen opposition seeks details on Gulf plan | Reuters

Yemen protesters vow to stay in Sanaa square | AFP

Argument: Who’s Really In the Yemeni Opposition, Anyway? | Foreign Policy

Argument: Twilight of a Strongman | Foreign Policy

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A Yemeni army officer, center, salutes as he is lifted along with other officers by anti-government protesters during a demonstration on Sunday, April 10, 2011. [Photo: AP/Muhammed Muhelsen]

Algeria, Bahrain, Djibouti, Ivory Coast, Saudi Arabia, Swaziland, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Yemen Weekend News Roundup

Algeria:

In Algeria, a chill in the Arab spring | Washington Post

HRW: Restore Civil Liberties - With State of Emergency Over, Amend Laws to Restore Rights | AllAfrica

Bahrain:

Two Shiite activists die in Bahraini custody | AFP

Nearly 800 people have been detained since protests began | Bahrain Center for Human Rights

Human rights leader missing, taken by Bahraini police | CNN

Bahrain human rights activist “arrested, beaten up” | Reuters

Bahrain prosecutor to question former editors of main opposition newspaper Al Wasat | AP

Students in Iran Demonstrate in Support of Bahrain’s Shiites | NY Times

Bahrain is the line in the sand | Boston Globe

Bahrain, Syria and Yemen ‘playing with fire’, says EU diplomat | EU Observer

Djibouti:

A Friendly Little Dictatorship in the Horn of Africa: Why the world doesn’t care about Djibouti’s autocracy | Foreign Policy

Ivory Coast:

UN, French attack Gbagbo heavy weapons, damage presidential palace | Reuters

Ouattara Forces Kill, Rape Civilians During Offensive | HRW

Ouattara pledges he’ll establish human rights body, says UN | Reuters

Ouattara’s lawyers want Gbagbo to face trial | Reuters

Mortars fired at Ouattara’s hotel in Abidjan | AJE

Killings keep west Ivorian cocoa farmers in hiding | Reuters

Ivory Coast’s Abidjan risks health disaster, says MSF | Reuters

Ivory Coast fighting sparks fresh influx of refugees in Liberia | CS Monitor

Analysis: Manufacturing Côte d’Ivoire’s ‘Good Guy’ | AllAfrica

AUDIO: A jewel before its decline | NPR

VIDEO: Ignoring Cote d’Iviore | AJE

Beware of internet misinformation: hoax footage of atrocities in Ivory Coast | France24 (h/t news-intercom)

Mapping the conflict in Ivory Coast | Maps With The News (h/t futurejournalismproject)

Saudi Arabia:

Saudi rights activist: Hundreds of Shiite demonstrators demand release of political prisoners | AP

Saudi unemployed graduates protest to demand jobs | Reuters

Top White House aide to visit Saudi Arabia, UAE | Reuters

Swaziland:

Swaziland bans protests | AFP

Pro-democracy campaign groups are calling for an ‘April 12 Uprising’ | AllAfrica (h/t ligao)

South Africa’s largest labour group plans to blockade a key border crossing with Swaziland next week to support planned protests | AFP

Syria:

Syrian rights group says funeral comes under fire in southern city on Saturday | AP

Four Killed on Sunday as Syria Cuts Off City | NY Times

Syria death toll rises as threats of force become more explicit | Guardian

Syrian activists distribute video of protests | The Lede

Iran blames Jordan, Saudi Arabia for Syria | UPI

Ban Ki-Moon voices concern after deadly clashes in southern city | UN News Centre

Tunisia:

Ben Ali’s brother arrested in Tunisia | AJE

Tough transition in Tunisia after “Arab spring” | AP

VIDEO: Tunisia tourism industry struggling‎ | BBC

United Arab Emirates:

UAE detains another pro-democracy activist and an academic in widening crackdown on dissent | Washington Post

Yemen:

24 children killed in Yemen unrest: Unicef | Gulf News

Yemeni forces fire on protesters in 2 cities on Saturday seeking president’s ouster; several wounded | AP

Thousands march in Yemen over protesters’ deaths | Guardian

Gulf bloc calls on Yemeni ruler to transfer power to vice president | AP

Yemen resolution unlikely as president dismisses Gulf plan to end rule | Guardian

Yemen yanks diplomat over Qatar’s resignation talk | AP

WikiLeaks: Yemen tricked Saudis into nearly bombing president’s rival | Guardian

US embassy cables: Saudi defence minister explains targeting of Yemeni rebels with air strikes | Guardian

State cables show rising concern about al-Qaeda in Yemen | Washington Post

Hard-line Islamic enclave in Yemen illustrates militant risk if regime crumbles | AP

The Yemen President’s Pariah Family | The Daily Beast

Comment: Our revolution’s doing what Saleh can’t – uniting Yemen | Guardian

Comment: Western policymakers shouldn’t accept this Saleh spin | Guardian

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REUTERS-UN official in NY says Ivory Coast’s Gbagbo hasn’t surrendered; expressed willingness to do so, asks for UN protection #ivorycoast

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A Syrian woman reacts as she sits next to her son who was seriously wounded during a violence between security forces and armed groups in Latakia, northwest of Damascus, Syria, on March 27. [Photo: Hussein Malla/AP]

Bahrain, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen News Roundup: March 28.

Bahrain:

Bahrain opposition says 250 detained, 44 missing | Reuters

Bahrain shuns Kuwait’s mediation offer | AJE

World ignoring Bahrain struggle | Toronto Star

Ivory Coast:

Battle Erupts For Key Ivory Coast Town | VOA

Ivory Coast Refinery Running Out of Crude, May Shut in April | BusinessWeek

EU weighs new sanctions on Ivory Coast’s Gbagbo | Reuters

Britain announces emergency aid for Ivory Coast refugees | Guardian

The Urgent Situation in Cote d’Ivoire | David Paltiel, Yale School of Medicine

Jordan:

Jordan PM defends freedom of speech after unrest | AFP

Jordan: Set Independent Inquiry in Attacks on Protesters | HRW

Syria:

Syrian protesters come under fire from security forces | Guardian

Syrian president wavers between crackdown or compromise as southern protests continues | AP

Assad to replace emergency law with worse: dissident | Reuters

What is at stake if Syria’s regime falls | CS Monitor

A bloody mess | The Economist

As Obama talks Libya, neocons move on to Syria | MinnPost

Pawlenty: Obama administration ‘naive’ on Syria | CNN

Pawlenty blasts Clinton on Assad: ‘ignorant or frighteningly misguided’ | POLITICO

Opinion Brief: Should the U.S. intervene in Syria? | The Week

Argument: The Syrian Time Bomb | Foreign Policy

Peter Goodspeed: Syrian violence raises the stakes on Arab upheaval | National Post

Reader writes the problems of Syria are larger than any individual | CNN

Tunisia:

Tunisia’s interim president sacks interior minister without explanation, report says | AP

The Casbah Coalition | The New Yorker News Desk

Yemen:

Blast at Yemen explosives factory kills 110 | AP

Yemen fighting worsening already dire humanitarian situation, warns UN official | UN News Centre

Activists urge UN rights council to meet on Yemen | Reuters

The Unfolding Situation in Yemen | Steven Heydemann, United States Institute of Peace

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A scene from Libya. [Photo: Lynsey Addario for The New York Times]

Here is a brief news roundup for Libya, Bahrain, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Yemen and other countries for Wednesday, March 9. [Previously: March 8]

Libya:

• BBC Interactive: Conflict in maps
• Gadhafi forces re-capture town in west Libya | Al Arabiya
• BBC staff ‘arrested and tortured in Libya by Gaddafi forces’ | Guardian
• Gadhafi can’t be forgiven after ‘massacres’, says ex-interior min | Al Arabiya
• U.N. confirms probe into allegations of torture by Gaddafi’s forces | Washington Post
• U.S. Seesaws on Arming Libyan Rebels | WSJ
• Australia Central Bank Freezes Libyan Assets | Corruption Currents - WSJ
• Libya’s war intensifies but no sign of intervention | Guardian
• Why a Libyan No-Fly Zone Is Worth the Risks | The Atlantic
• Gimme Shelter: Muammar Gaddafi | National Post
• Graphic: The split between Libya’s east and west | National Post
• Nicholas Kristof: The Case For A No-Fly Zone | NY Times
• Comment: Ethics failure over Libya | Financial Post
• Is U.S. missing a ‘window of opportunity’ in Libya? | USA Today
• Mu’ Money, Mu’ Problems: Public Figures Who Accepted Cash from Gaddafi | GOOD

Bahrain:

• Thousands stage rally in Bahrain | AJE
• Bahraini Shi’ites protest against settling Sunnis | Reuters
• Bahraini Sunni clerics warn against sectarian strife | AFP
• Protests over citizenship for Sunnis from abroad shake Bahrain | The National
• Bahrain hard-liners call for royal family to go | CNN

China:

• Heavy-handed Response to Journalists in China Becomes the Story | PBS Newshour
• Tokyo, Manila protest Chinese harassment | UPI

Egypt:

• Sectarian strife flares in Egypt, 13 killed | Reuters
• Sectarian clashes in Egypt challenge a revolutionary idealism | Washington Post
• ElBaradei sets conditions for presidential run | AP
• Egypt’s security forces are weakened after decades as Mubarak’s enforcer | Washington Post
• Death in Garbage City | New Yorker News Desk

Iran:

• Iran’s response to Middle East protests is muted | Washington Post

Ivory Coast:

• Obama condemns ‘abhorrent’ violence in Ivory Coast, calls on Gbagbo to step down | AFP
• Lack of funds to bring down Ivory Coast’s Gbagbo, says French diplomatic source | Reuters
• Gbagbo snubs AU talks | Times Live
• Would-be president Ouattara heads to mediation summit | AFP
• Bloody Standoff In Ivory Coast Edges Closer To Civil War | NPR

Jordan:

• Amid Arab protests, resentment builds in Jordanian town | Washington Post

Saudi Arabia:

• Small protest held in Saudi Arabia despite government warning | AP
• Saudi foreign minister warns against protests | AP

Tunisia:

• Tunisia court dissolves ousted president’s party | AFP

Yemen:

• More blood spilled in Yemen protests | AFP
• Yemeni dies of wounds from army raid on Sanaa university | AP
• ‘Nerve gas’ used on Yemen protesters | Sydney Morning Herald
• Killing of Protester hardens opposition resolve in Yemen | Reuters
• US urges Yemen to probe violence | AFP
• Rights Group Says Yemen Used Deadly Force in Aden | VOA News
• Andrew’s trip to Yemen – and a deal to sell a dictator bullets | The Independent

Other good reads:

• Arab Revolutions Through the WikiLeaks Lens | Foreign Policy
• Argument: America Shouldn’t Hijack Egypt’s Revolution | Foreign Policy
• How Chaos in Libya Made America Unhappy | The Atlantic Wire
• Kenya tries to block ICC prosecution of ministers over election violence | The Independent

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